Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Custom PhpWiki Backup failed

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Le Roux van Wyk schrieb:
> I have recently moved from Redhat to Debian and therefore had to
> reinstall phpwiki. I didn't see the phpwiki backup facility, and just
> exported the mysql tables to .sql and copied the entire phpwiki
> directory over to the new machine. Now that I try to import the sql
> files into the database, I get incomplete data. Will the phpwiki allow
> this type of "copy"? Why is the data incomplete?

> I used mysqlfront to export the data originally, and have never
> before  had problems with data being incompletely exported.
> Can anybody shed some light on the subject?

probably errors with incorrect quoting or unsupported charsets.

please try phpmyadmin (for the stupid) or
mysqldump and mysql (for the brave).

mysqldump --opt phpwiki > phpwiki.sql
scp phpwiki.sql newmachine:
ssh newmachine
mysql phpwiki < phpwiki.sql

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